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- 571: Jury Nullification and Its Effects on Black America
- ... best for the American legal system, what legal precedents dictate, or as is most often the case, on what is "right." It is, however, negligent to simply focus on these issues when examining the proposal of Professor Butler. Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. From this perspective it becomes ... Second, "the crime and delinquency rates of incarceration, and rates of arrest and of victimization of those who move away from these slums are indistinguishable from whites of the same social class."13 This fact suggests that socioeconomic factors are very important in the existence of crime. Butler argues that the this fact is simply more impetus for the implementation of his plan. He asserts that discrimination and segregation deprive Blacks of adequate opportunity to improve their social and economic standing. He describes a "radical critique," by which he states he is persuaded, in which "the radical critic deduces that but for the (racist) environment, the African- ...
- 572: JFK
- ... speeches and exerted a strong influence on Kennedy's development as a political liberal, 5 a person who believes that the government should directly help people to overcome poverty or social discrimination. The president and Mrs. Kennedy attempted to make the White House the cultural center of the nation. Writers, artists, poets, scientists, and musicians were frequent dinner guests. On one ... areas of the United States. The most original piece of legislation Kennedy put through Congress was the bill creating the Peace Corps, an agency that trained American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service overseas. The program's goal was to promote world peace and friendship with developing nations. The idea of American volunteers helping people in foreign lands touched the ... 25, 1962, 1113 prisoners were released in exchange for food and medical supplies valued at a total of approximately $53 million. Most other Latin American countries had the same bad social, economic, and political conditions that had led to Castro's success in Cuba. Many of these nations seemed ripe for a revolution that could easily be exploited by the ...
- 573: Drug Prohibition
- ... and why it might not be effective. This requires a discussion on the role of government. The ultimate purpose of government is to protect our rights. We've entered a social contract with our governments: that we will give our obedience and taxes in return for protection of our rights. The United Nations classifies these rights in three "generations": civil, socioeconomic ... use the cocaine over eating. The problem with the experiment, however, was that the rats were left isolated in cages. A similar experiment in which they placed rats in more social environments found that rats consumed 16 times less cocaine than the solitary rats. Also, the rats wouldn't use the cocaine at all until the scientists made it very sweet ... users by themselves. The United States needs to reconsider its view of drugs as leading to the unavoidable downfall of the individual and instead as the choice of people with social problems to avoid them. In contrast with the defense of the individual, how Drug Prohibition does not protect society, but instead harms it, will complete the chain of fallacies ...
- 574: The Presidency and Inexperience
- ... the forced relocation of thousands of Japanese-Americans on the Pacific coast in World War II. (Barnett) Additionally, The president is the single most potent policy maker in economic and social affairs. Recent presidents have to be concerned with such issues and problems as health, welfare, crime, energy, inflation, unemployment, the U.S. balance of payments, the strength of the dollar abroad, and the mounting budget deficit. The sweeping income-tax ... Clinton made health-care reform a top priority of his administration. (Berman 54) The president also establishes and administers national policies, within statutory limits of course, in such areas as social security, education, and health. Here, we could mention the faults of the inexperienced Ronald Reagan, citing that the Reagan administration moved to cut spending on most social programs, in ...
- 575: Sexual Harrassment: We Need to Take Action
- ... system to work on behalf of women, and they highlight the way in which economic pressure from the male-dominated workplace has helped to paralyze feminism as a broad-based social movement over the past decade (Sexual Harassment, page 101)." We need to understand that it is not about women being emotionally or physically hurt but their equal rights are violated ... Sexual Harassment, page 103)." Although, Anita Hill has kept silent for ten years before bringing this to the Supreme Court. This is representative of the general silencing of women's issues in the male-dominated workplace. Women need to be much stronger and determined. The companies itself can't make all the policies to prevent and stop harassment. It's like ... It is also a system in which workers are forced to compete with one another for limited job and advancement opportunities and to gain power through higher status. "Our present social and economic system…creates the material conditions and social climate that constantly reproduce and reinforce sexist behavior (Sexual Harassment, page 107). What if we established socialism? In a socialist ...
- 576: Blaxploitation
- ... Independent production companies such as the Ebony Motion Picture Company began to emerge in the 20’s, but the stereotypes and subject matter stayed the same. A common theme of social climbing, the ultimate goal of the negro being suburban living, dominating Black theatres.(Cham, 20) Throughout the 30’s and 40’s the gangster films rose to the fore, usually depicting gun-totting, slick-talking negros, entent on making it big. Despite the presence of Black independent filmmakers such as George Randall, African American issues were essentially ignored. The 50’s and 60’s brought social unrest and the Civil Rights Movement brought a need for films with a stronger message. The archetypes of the 20’s and thirties were no longer acceptable, and the ...
- 577: Clausewitz And The Nature Of W
- ... outbreak of hostilities. If pressed, Clausewitz would have placed war-making closer to the domain of the arts, but neither definition was really satisfactory. Instead, war is a form of social intercourse. The Prussian writer occasionally likened it to commerce or litigation, but more usually to politics.*3 The distinction is crucial: in both art and science, the actor is working ... When Clausewitz wrote that war may have a grammar of its own, but not its own logic, he meant that the logic of war, like politics, is the logic of social intercourse, not that of art or science. This approach may seem to violate our usual concept of war, with its focus on clearly defined forms of "victory" and "defeat," but ... Clausewitz they were so much a part of the fabric of war that theory must consider them as intrinsic. Clausewitz's insistence on the unpredictability of war raises some important issues. His writings are sometimes cited in support of various attempts at mathematically modeling war,*16 but, while much of Clausewitz's logic sounds vaguely mathematical and many of his ...
- 578: Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
- Joseph Heller who is perhaps one of the most famous writers of the 20th century writes on some emotional issues such as war. He does not deal with these issues in the normal fashion instead he criticizes them and the institutions that help carry these things out. Heller in fact goes beyond criticizing he satirizes. Throughout his two major novels ... when Colonel Cathcart is aspiring to become a general. In this chapter religion is satirized in a number of ways. The first is when Colonel Cathcart uses it for a social icon to improve his chance of becoming general. Dr. Peek agrees with this by saying ". . . we see a satire on religion used as a matter of social status" (25). ...
- 579: Gangs
- ... the child. It is then that the bond between the kid and the gang is completed because the gang has effectively taken the place of the family. The new anti social structure of cities also effects the ease in which a boy/girl can join a gang. " The formation of gangs in cities, and most recently in suburbs, is facilitated by ... a minimum. Unfortunately there is no real organized force to help fight gangs. Of course the police are supposed to do this but this situation quite often deals with racial issues also and the police forces regularly display their increasing inability to deal fairly with these issues. What we need are more people to form organizations like the "Guardian Angels" a gang-like group that makes life very tough for street gangs that are breaking laws. ...
- 580: Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- ... their problems!? Cash flow problems will put people out of business. Computer programmers will make big bucks from now until 2000, as demand increases for their expertise. What about liability issues that arise because company "A" reneged on a deal because of a computer glitch. Sue! Sue! Sue! What about ATM lockups, or credit card failures, medical emergencies, downed phone systems ... Given society's reliance on computers, the failure of the systems to operate properly can mean anything from minor inconveniences to major problems: Licenses and permits not issued, payroll and social service checks not cut, personnel, medical and academic records malfunctioning, errors in banking and finance, accounts not paid or received, inventory not maintained, weapon systems malfunctioning (shudder!), constituent services not ... system components will be reused, causing the problem to be even more widespread. Correcting the situation may not be so difficult as it will be time consuming. For instance, the Social Security Administration estimates that it will spend 300 man-years finding and correcting these date references in their information systems - systems representing a total of 30 million lines of ...
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